I'm thinking about developing a plug-in to allow more advanced find/replace and tags<=>filename library managment functionality. Probably to incorporate the use of regular expressions.
In particular, I'm thinking of this in terms of a larger scale problem. I have a series of files that I automatically get. I like to have them imported automatically or at scheduled times. I can use KingSparta's Folder Slueth for this.
The issue arises because I have my own convention for how I like to tag these files. There is no real way for me to automate that aspect. These more advanced find/replace and tag/filename functions could help facilitate this.
So, the question is, does anyone else have use for this? Are there already some plug-ins out there that I could use rather than going through the trouble myself? Any thoughts on the implementation environment to do this? In particular, is there a free way to develop plug-ins?
The only way I can think of to do it freely right now is to develop it in Perl. I know Perl and could probably develop something quickly and with a lot of functionality. The problem is, it wouldn't really be a "plug-in", more of an external utility that you could use to do things with. And of course, a user would have to have a perl run-time environment.
I'm curious to get feedback and hear thoughts on this.
You know poor, starving students, the "free" constraint is a bummer.
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